198 Quotes by François Rabelais

If you say to me: “Master, it would seem that you weren’t too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries,” I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.

How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?

Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do’s ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.

It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

I build only living stones – men.